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Really old Packard Bell, something that looks like this:
It isn't much different from my current computer
So far mine might be the oldest. As gsrdgrdghd has to be younger than 30.
Well it's from 1936
yeah but your not!
Can I have your mechanical keyboard
@cosmicgate who are you talking to?
More Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_CPC
FWIW I had the one in the second pic, with the disk drive.
Other notable mentions of which I owned growing up and enjoyed...
VZ300
I used to plug this one in direct to a small black & white TV, and connect the external tape drive to it. Insert the tape/cassette and hit play, short time later dungeons and dragons was on the TV ready to play
TRS80
This thing was a bit of a PITA, personally I didn't like it. However one notable point was that every device that connected to it did so via a ribbon cable similar to the old IDE/floppy cables, just with slots instead of pins.
very nice pc
I had the cassette tape deck for added storage, but the TRS-80 came out a few months later, was so pissed.
True. The first physical PC i owned was a 600Mhz Pentium 3 with 64mb RAM, 15gb HDD and a 56kbit AOL dialup connection.
That's a chick magnet if I ever saw one! Haha i was interested in what you'd post :P
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_116
My first computer was an Amiga 500 with a Commodore monitor. I got it in 1990 and used it until 1995. Then I got a Pentium 166Mhz with 16MB RAM and that was so much better
I got my first Amstrad 6128 with "green" monitor in 1988. Green was actually green, nothing to do with enviroment
that was my 2nd computer... then, I upgrade it to Pentium MMX 200mhz with 32mb of RAM... and changed the video card from Cirrus 1MB to.. I don't remember the brand but it was 4MB
Not sure that's the exact model but looks like it. Had a cd-rom where the tape drive is.
Packard Bell 486 dx2 66Mhz. I think it had 8mb RAM and a 200mb HD. Memory starts to fade on those last two numbers. I remember it had a 2400 baud dial-up modem, which I later upgraded with an external 9600.
Those where the times, right? I had a P MMX 200Mhz MMX, then 233Mhz MMX, then went the AMD route for a long time with their K6-3D line of 266MHz, K6-3D 300Mhz, and then all the way up to K6 500Mhz, switched to a Duron and then to a Thunderbird. Every hardware upgrade was something to look forward to, every tweak, pencil trick for OC and hardware mod (GeForce -> Quadro by moving two resistors and performing a BIOS update) was awesome. These days it seems like it's not what it used to be.
Yeah, that times ='(
I jumped from the 200MMX to 233MMX (I could play Deathdrome and F-22 Raptor with "advanced" graphics), then jumped slightly to a Celeron, then P3 933mhz, and then I don't remember, I think I jumped to a Pentium D
is that a jaz drive in the packardbell?
Think it's a Colorado T1000 but the picture is so small. Surprised that was the closest picture I could find, but mine had a cdrom.
Ahhh tape drive that's what that is.
Tandy with 16 bit color and dual 5 1/4" floppy drives
I have it still, not working tho and it was made in 1989.
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This, 1K of ram:
:-)
first laptop looked like this.. :P
forgot what my desktop was good 'ol floppy drives.
Also some really old Packard Bell
@24khost, Kind of hard to see the picture, but it looks like a TRS-80 Color. That was my first computer, I remember using that for many an hour before my Grandfather got a Pentium Gateway in the early 1990's. Boy do I not miss using tapes to store my data...
I'm glad I'm not the only one who had one of those, lots of people on the internet never used a computer before PII were out
My first Computer, the Toshiba T1800 Notebook. Actually, was the old work-notebook of my dad that he'd given to me.